ABSTRACT
Since its foundation in 1846, the Hakluyt Society has done much to maintain the reputation of the man whose name it bears. There have been seven major publication projects reprinting or analysing his work, many more echoing it, plus a failed attempt to bring out an edited edition of The Principal Navigations of 1598–1600. 1 All this might never have happened had the original intentions of the Society’s nineteenth-century founder been carried out. Indeed, the Hakluyt Society would not have been given that title at all.
